A
Panamanian attorney and gun owner rights activist recently told me that
George Soros was pushing gun confiscation in Panama, and that every
time he adds another country to the gun control list, the position of
the U.S. at the U.N. becomes more precarious.

In
other words, thanks to George Soros in some considerable measure, the
UN noose is tightening around the neck of gun owners in the U.S.

George
Soros is a Hungarian born socialist billionaire who now resides in the
U.S. Soros, who wants everybody (but himself) to be equally poor, was
convicted in France of insider trading.

There
is the story of the fellow who murdered his parents and then pled to
the court for mercy because he was an orphan. Similarly, George Soros,
having lost on appeal to France's highest court then appealed to the
European Court of Human Rights (which is still pending) on the grounds
that the French process took too long.

What
an irony that Mr. Insider Trading, aka George Soros, funnels a lot of
his left-wing political financing through the Open Society Institute.

I
have seen the footprints of George Soros' financing of gun-grabbing
legislation throughout the world. When I was in South Africa a few years
ago, the law that the communist African National Congress party had
put on the books there had been promoted by George Soros.

Earlier
this year when I addressed a conference of the Panamanian Association
of Gun Owners (APPA), I heard a Panamanian speaker detail the bill that
APPA is fighting in the Panamanian National Assembly. Not surprisingly,
it has the same provisions as the South African law. Then a Costa Rican
member of that country's National Assembly described the gun control
bill in their legislature. Care to guess what is in the Costa Rican
bill? The same provisions.

The
Costa Rican added that the bill was being pushed by President Oscar
Arias, aided by his Arias Foundation which is funded by none other than
George Soros.

The
warning of the Panamanian attorney that the UN noose is tightening around
the necks of American gun owners sounded all the more credible when
the bigger picture of Soros-sponsored international gun control emerged.

But,
as the salesman says, there is more.

Soros
is not ignoring direct involvement in the U.S. He pumped big bucks into
the anti-gun show referendum campaign of Americans for Gun Safety in
2000. Presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain was the pitchman for
this attack on the Second Amendment in the Colorado and Oregon referenda
of that year.

With
this kind of position on guns, it is not surprising that McCain's 2000
presidential bid fizzled. Because he planned to run again, McCain wanted
to park his key campaign staff where they would be available the next
time they heard his siren call. That place ended up being the Reform
Institute which received major funding from George Soros.

McCain's
Reform Institute was the tip of the spear in the campaign to gag political
speech, aka, the McCain-Feingold campaign act of 2002. Among other things,
McCain was insulating himself from pesky criticisms by gun owners of
his anti-gun record which puts the lie to his claims of support for
the Second Amendment.

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How
interesting. A trip to Panama helped me understand better than before
how sinister George Soros is, and the threat he represents to freedom,
not only in the U.S., but in many other countries as well.

Larry Pratt has been Executive
Director of Gun Owners of America
for 27 years. GOA is a national membership organization of 300,000 Americans
dedicated to promoting their second amendment freedom to keep and bear
arms.

He published a book, Armed People Victorious,
in 1990 and was editor of a book, Safeguarding Liberty: The Constitution
& Militias, 1995. His latest book, On the Firing Line: Essays in the Defense
of Liberty was published in 2001.